Varying Quotes
123 Varying quotes by 110 unique authors
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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of…
— Walter Scott
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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
— Ernest Dimnet
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Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon,…
— John L. Phillips
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The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that…
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more…
— Galina Vishnevskaya
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The recipe for creating anything is really quite simple. Take good or bad feelings (meaning positive or negative vibrations), bake with varying degrees of emotion…
— Lynn Grabhorn
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something…
— Patrick Carney
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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only…
— Margaret Mead
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With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time…
— Rene Dubos
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Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation…
— Christopher Heyerdahl
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Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my…
— Christopher Heyerdahl
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It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses,…
— Henning Mankell
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I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of…
— Vera Farmiga
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To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the…
— Alexander Pope
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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been…
— William Stafford
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Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.
— Max Planck
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Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.
— Kenwa Mabuni
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The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
— Carly Fiorina
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My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions…
— Tom Hodgkinson
Who Wrote These Varying Quotes
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